Several years ago, I purchased a used Powertap hub from a good friend of mine. It is the original Powertap Hub and it has been sitting in my garage for several years when one day I was rummaging around and saw it. I thought that this hub would be fine for my trainer and I recently installed it.

However, my recent (now three week long cold) has prevented me from doing any training, until today.

While I am no where near completely well, I felt good enough to do a short test using the new hub. The results are below:

The hub worked very well, with just one exception – the data had three very high wattage spikes. I edited the data file to remove them so they do not show on the above graph.

As to my effort, it was hard. I rode to the Carmichael Training Systems Time Trial workout and I cut the workout short after two warm up intervals and one power interval. This was enough in my current condition.

I’m hoping I can continue my training next beginning this Tuesday.